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- “Here is where Ser Burton Crakehall broke helm and head with a blow of his mace. Here the mark the manticore made at Rushing Falls. He seized a poor beekeeper and his wife, thinking they were mine, and let it be known far and wide that he would hang them both unless I gave myself up to him. When I did he hanged them anyway, and me on the gibbet between them. Here is where the Mountain thrust his dirk through my visor. That's thrice I have died at the hands of House Clegane. You would think that I might have learned...”
- ―Beric to Arya Stark
- “Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I was pledged to marry, but I could not find that castle today, nor tell you the color of that woman's hair. Who knighted me, old friend? What were my favorite foods? It all fades. Sometimes I think I was born on the bloody grass in that grove of ash, with the taste of fire in my mouth and a hole in my chest. Are you my mother, Thoros?”
- ―Beric, to Thoros of Myr, after losing many of his memories since being resurrected multiple times as a wight of fire.
Lord Beric Dondarrion, also known as the Lightning Lord, is a supporting character from A Song of Ice and Fire and its television adaptation Game of Thrones. He is the head of House Dondarrion and Lord of Blackhaven, a castle in the Dornish Marches, in the southwestern stormlands. He is engaged to Allyria Dayne, and his squire and former page is her nephew, Lord Edric Dayne of Starfall. He is 21 at the beginning of the first book.
In the TV series he is portrayed by David Michael Scott in season 1 and by Richard Dormer from season 3 onward.
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- High Intellect
- Expert Tactician
- Expert combatant
- Expert swordsman
- Indomitable Willpower
- Pyrokinesis